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Surprise among countries jailing the most journalists per capita

donal brown April 3, 2012

The Committee to Protect Journalists of the CJR is most concerned with the murder of journalists in Russia and Syria and the long-term incarceration of reporters. The number of nations hostile to free speech and press includes the usual suspects: China, Ethiopia, Iran, Vietnam, and Sudan. But it is surprising that Israel ranks second in the number of journalists in prison although aspiring to be a modern democracy. -db From an analysis for the Columbia

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Fact checking fell short on ‘This American Life’ program on Apple factory abuses in China

donal brown March 19, 2012

When the producers of the radio program “This American Life” were told by Mike Daisey that it would not be possible to talk to Daisey’s  interpreter to check the facts of his account of labor abuses by Apple factories in China, the producers should have ignored Daisey’s reassurances and  taken other steps to verify the facts, writes Craig Silverman in a commentary for the Poynter Institute. The producers ended up running a retraction of the

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Opinion: China’s censorship regimen spreading around the world

donal brown November 28, 2011

Totalitarian regimes around the world are successfully using the Chinese model of censorship against their citizens, reports David Rohde in a commentary for Reuters. Rohde says the Stop Online Piracy Act would seriously erode the ability of the United States to fight the new tide of international Internet censorship. -db From a commentary for Reuters, November 18, 2011, by David Rohde. Full story  

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Opinion: Online Piracy Act seen as censorship threat

donal brown November 28, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act would bring China-style Internet censorship to the United States, argues Rebecca MacKinnon in an op-ed in The New York Times. MacKinnon said the bill before Congress, designed to protect intellectual property, would “inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.” -db From an op-ed in The New York Times, November 15, 2011, by Rebecca MacKinnon. Full story

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Chinese protesters use comic subterfuge to evade government censors

donal brown November 1, 2011

With the Chinese government employing more than 50,000 censors to monitor the Internet for politically deviant opinion, bloggers are using humor and satire to get their message across before the censors close in. There is always a strong element of fear and uncertainty for the bloggers as they never know where the line is between the acceptable satire and a criminal offense. -db From a feature in The New York Times Magazine, October 26, 2011,

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